A Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Robert A. Heinlein
American - Writer
July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Paul Rusesabagina

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

Michael Lewis

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

Edwin Gaustad

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

Steve Harvey

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

Eugene Jarecki

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

A. Whitney Brown

What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A bulk of our real history can be found in Egyptian and Greek mythology. Yes, myths reveal to us worlds of other dimensions that make up our true reality. History books teach us that the minds of the past operated on the same frequency, dimension, or level of consciousness as we do now. Not true at all.